Discover how suitable you are for living in Cork by answering this questioneer on PRC.
Q10 (bonus point question) Would you..?
A) “Hell, why not!”
B) “It really depends on the earning potential.”
C) “I would yeah!”
Monthly Archives: September 2003
We want your soul!
WWYS® has been formed by a consortium of international companies – including leading financial and genetic research institutions – to create a product that gives you an actual CASH VALUE for your soul.
Fire units battling Cork city blaze
I just heard on IRC that there’s a fire in Blackpool! I looked out the window but didn’t expect to see anything as we’re more than 8 6.25 miles (Thanks Christian!) away here in Ballincollig…
Fire in Blackpool
Hard to debug this..
Glad I don’t work where this bug was submitted. It’s a Visual C++ bug but I’m not convinced that the steps to reproduce are valid.
What if someone from marketing walks into the room just as the compilation finishes? They’re not a developer but if they hear the sound, it might be the microwave dinging.. (ok, this is getting silly, I’ll shut up!)
If need to ask why? – Thanks Pron for that.
The 2003 Minigame Competition!
I’d love to enter this competition with a C64 entry, but it’s about 10 years since I’ve done anything on the that platform! *sigh*
Reading the FAQ at the bottom of the page was an entertaining read and reminded me of the days when every byte (or bit!) mattered.
Parents Television Council 1999-2000 Top 10 Best and Worst shows on Network TV
Bah! Family Guy is no. 2 on their list! Great show, pity it was canceled 🙁
Digital Photography FAQ
Genuine Fractals? Blow up your pictures!
There’s a distinct difference between fractal and raster images. Raster images are the jpeg and gif files you see all over the place. These don’t resize very well. Fractals are made up of mathematical descriptions of the objects in a scene or picture. Using these descriptions it’s possible to resize an image without losing any detail or introducing blocky artifects. (Feel free to comment if I have anything wrong above!)
Apparently Genuine Fractals from Lizardtech, enables you to create resolution-independent images from any size file and lets you print superior quality enlargements without any degradation in image quality.
The photos shown in this thread were blown up using that software and they look very impressive! (I don’t think his wife will let him change his camera after seeing those shots! *grin*)
I wondered if anything like that existed in the Unix world, but after a short search, this thread seemed to be the extent of it’s foray into Unix. 🙁
Ford Sportka | The Evil Twin
I saw this short film at www.the-eviltwin.co.uk on “The Panel” on Network 2 the other night. Unfortunately, the site is an awful flash site. To watch the “Evil Twin” movie, click on “View Highlights”, and then click on “Clip one”. It’s a tiny box, and I can’t see any download link for a sane version.
Update! That site is gone, but you can get the Ford Sport Ka ads here: http://www.allowe.com/Humor/video.htm – just scroll down a little. Thanks Brian for getting that!
Here’s a lot more info about the advert. Good read.
Spamassassin – scoring on DSL lines
Since upgrading to Spamassassin 2.60 yesterday I’ve noticed a (small) increase in false positives. There were only 4 out of 132 spams caught overnight, but almost all were from dsl or dynamic IP addresses. The default score for this test is 2.5, but if you add the following to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf you can change the score:
score RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 0 1 0 1
That’ll give it a ‘1’ instead of 2.5 which is probably more reasonable. (Ironically, most of the emails caught were from “Karsten M. Self”, a critic of TMDA, who posts directly from his dial-up machine!)